You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
JOSEPH JOUBERTLogic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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Space is the stature of God.
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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.
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One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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Never cut what you can untie.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
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Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
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You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
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